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“Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.”

Quote by Emile Zola

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Emile Zola

French writer born on April 2, 1840, and died on September 29, 1902. Émile Zola is known for his naturalist literary style and profound depiction of social reality. more

“A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded. It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.”

Ifs Want Persons Hands Air Please What You Want Vain Bored Right Thing Melancholy Inferiors Want Something Inferiority

Book:The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition

Source: The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition

“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”

Vision Style

Author:Stendhal

“A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.”

Said Matter Would Be Fool Concerned

Book:Armance

Source: Armance

“A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.”

Men Years Youth Forty Old Woman Forty Years Old

Author:Stendhal

“It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.”

Lovers Husband Romantic Love

Book:Love

Source: Love

“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”

Meteors Thunderbolts

Book:Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James

Source: Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James

“The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me sad.' 'Make me dream.' 'Make me laugh.' 'Make me shiver.' 'Make me weep.' 'Make me think.'”

Thinking Dream Laughing Groups Cry Comfort Make Me Laugh Shiver My Sympathy

Book:Pierre and Jean: And Other Stories

Source: Pierre and Jean: And Other Stories

“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.”

Thinking Way Trying Soul Age Young Life Is Imagine Talent Old Age Your Soul Inner Happiness

Author:George Sand

“Vanity is the quicksand of reason.”

Inspirational Reason Vanity Quicksand

Author:George Sand

“I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.”